Installing Openssl on Ubuntu
If you have tried to install Mechanize or any gem that requires openssl on Ubuntu
or Debian, you may have encountered the following error…
or Debian, you may have encountered the following error…
LoadError: no such file to load—openssl
despite the fact that you have installed openssl with “gem install libopenssl-ruby”.
Thanks to this thread, I found out that in order to install openssl, you have to tell ruby how to compile the openssl extension, like this…
cd /ruby-1.8.4/ext/openssl
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install
